[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 126 (Friday, June 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34297-34301]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16134]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Review by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
June 27, 1995.
The Department of Labor has submitted the following public
information collection requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) of 1980, as amended (P.L. 96-511). Copies may be
obtained by calling the Department of Labor Acting Departmental
Clearance Officer, Theresa M. O'Malley, (202) 219-5095. Comments and
questions about the ICRs listed below should be directed to Ms.
O'Malley, Office of Information Resources Management Policy, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-1301,
Washington, DC 20210. Comments should also be sent to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs. Attn: OMB Desk Officer for (BLS/DM/
ESA/ETA/OAW/MSHA/OSHA/PWBA/VETS), Office of Management and Budget, Room
10325, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 395-7316.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TTY/
TDD) may call (202) 219-4720 between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern
time, Monday through Friday.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Confined and Enclosed Spaces and Other Dangerous Atmospheres
in Shipyard Employment.
OMB Number: 1218-0011.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 300.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: .35 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 381.
Description: To ensure that shipyard personnel do not enter
confined spaces that contain oxygen deficient toxic or flammable
atmospheres, qualified (competent) personnel must test such spaces.
This information provides individuals deemed qualified by employers to
conduct such tests, plus results and instructions.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Occupational Exposure to Noise.
OMB Number: 1218-0048.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 311,094
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 6.7 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 1,915,151.
Description: The Occupational Exposure to Noise Standard and its
information collection requirements is to provide protection for
employees from the adverse health effects associated with occupational
exposure to noise. The Standard requires that employers must establish
and maintain a training and compliance program, including exposure
monitoring and medical surveillance records. These records are used by
employees, physicians, employers and the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) to determine the effectiveness of the employers'
compliance efforts. Also the standard requires that OSHA have access to
various records to ensure that employers are complying with the
provisions of the occupational exposure to noise.
Type of Review: Reinstatement without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Construction Oxygen and Toxic Test.
OMB Number: 1218-0054.
Frequency: Once per shift; occasionally several times per shift
when applicable.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 14,060.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 3 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 703.
Description: This regulation requires that whenever internal
combustion engine powered equipment exhausts in enclosed spaces, tests
shall be made and recorded to see that employees are not exposed to
unsafe concentrations of toxic gases or oxygen deficient atmospheres.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Underground Construction Air Quality Record.
OMB Number: 1218-0067.
Frequency: On occasion (the estimated 250 respondents annually that
are required to keep records under this standard take three air samples
a day over a 250-workday year).
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 3 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 46,876.
Description: This regulation requires that a record of all air
quality tests be maintained above ground at the worksite and be made
available to the Secretary of Labor upon request. The record shall
include the location, date,
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time, substance and amount monitored. Records of exposures to toxic
substances shall be retained in accordance with section 1910.20 of this
regulation. All other air quality tests records shall be retained until
completion of the project.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Diving Related Recordkeeping.
OMB Number: 1218-0069.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 3,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 37 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 111,005
Description: These requirements/records are directed toward
assuring the safety/health of divers exposed to hyperbaric conditions
during and after undersea activities. Additionally, the safety
standards requiring records pertaining to diving equipment are intended
to bring about a safe workplace and, thus, better assure the
occupational safety/health of divers.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occuptional Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Organizational Statement for Fire Brigades.
OMB Number: 1218-0075.
Frequency: One-time.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 2,750.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 269.
Description: The organizational statement describes what the fire
brigade is expected to do, and will help employees understand their
duties as fire brigade members. It will also inform compliance officers
of the type of fire fighting which will be performed, and if the level
of training is consistent with that type of fire fighting.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Construction Posting Requirements--Emergency Phone Number
and Floor Load Limits.
OMB Number: 1218-0093.
Frequency: (a) Once every other year (b) Twice every year.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: (a) 417,953; (b) 2,925=420,878.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: (a) 2 minutes; (b) 30 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: (a) 6,966; (b) 1,900=8,866.
Description: (a) Construction work is hazardous at times and the
injury and severity rates are high in spite of efforts to abate the
identifiable hazards, there is a need to obtain medical attention or
provide ambulance and hospital service as expeditiously as possible. It
is, therefore, necessary to require that the phone numbers be
conspicuously posted on construction job sites.
(b) During construction of certain multi-story buildings or
structures, it is necessary to store materials on elevated floors. In
order to make sure they do not overload the floor, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration requires the load limits to be posted
in pounds per square foot with signs in the storage area. This should
eliminate the hazard of building collapse due to overloading and thus
protect employers from the hazard.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Concrete and Masonry Construction.
OMB Number: 1218-0095.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 70,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 11,667
Description: Construction firms engaged in the erection of concrete
formwork are required to have a copy of the formwork plans or drawings
at the job site for use by the contractor when erecting the formwork.
Failure to follow drawings could cause a collapse.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Construction Crane or Derrick Annual Inspection Records.
OMB Number: 1218-0113.
Agency Number: OSHA 229.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 22,600.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 30 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 218,090.
Description: This regulation requires that a thorough, annual
inspection of the hoisting machinery be made by a competent person, or
by a government or private agency recognized by the Department of
Labor. The employer shall maintain a record of the dates and results of
inspections for each hoisting machine and piece of equipment.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Construction Crane Rating Chart Limitation Instructions.
OMB Number: 1218-0115.
Frequency: Annually for rerating; on occasion when there is a
modification of crane or derrick.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 19.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 65 hours per employee (depending on
the size of the crane, it can take between 2-10 employees).
Total Burden Hours: 4,550.
Description: This regulation requires the use of appropriately
documented capacity charts and machine configuration limitations to
ensure the employee a safe place to work for any field constructed
crane or derrick. The documentation is used by the employers,
engineers, supervisors and equipment operator employees to determine
machine ability to perform the lifting and placing of assigned loads
with the piece of equipment involved.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Electrical Standards for Construction.
OMB Number: 1218-0130.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 30,249.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.04 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 31,459.
Description: This collection of information requires employers to
maintain a written description of an assured equipment grounding
conductor program.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Occupational Exposure to Toxic Substances in Laboratories.
OMB Number: 1218-0131.
Agency Number:
Frequency: On occasion.
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Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 173,465.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.6 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 10,752.
Description: The laboratory standard and its information collection
requirements is to provide protection for employees from the adverse
health effects associated with occupational exposure to laboratories.
The standard requires that employers must establish and maintain a
training and compliance program including exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records. These records are used by employees,
physicians, employers and the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) to determine the effectiveness of the employers'
compliance efforts. Also, the standards requires that OSHA has access
to various records to ensure that employers are complying with the
disclosure provisions of the laboratory standard.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OMB Number: 1218-0133.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 486.
Estimated Time Per Response: .60 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 38,104.
Description: The asbestos standard and its information collection
requirements is to provide protection for employees from the adverse
health affects associated with occupational exposure to asbestos. The
standard requires that employers must establish and maintain a training
and compliance program, including exposure monitoring and medical
surveillance records. In addition, building owners and employers must
inform employees about the existence of asbestos containing material
and potential asbestos containing material in the facility. Required
information is used by employees, physicians, employers and the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure
employees are being protected from exposure to asbestos. Also, the
standard requires that OSHA have access to various records to ensure
that employers are complying with the disclosure provisions of the
asbestos standard.
Type of Review: Reinstatment, without change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Title: Design of Cave-in Protection Systems
OMB Number: 1218-0137.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1,150.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: .5 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 69,581.
Description: Design of cave-in protection systems are needed by
employers in the construction industry and the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration compliance officers to ensure that cave-in
protection systems are designed, installed, and used in a manner to
protect employees adequately.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Formaldehyde.
OMB Number: 1218-0145.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1,447,187.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: .50 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 721,053.
Description: This regulation requires employers to train employees
about the hazards of formaldehyde, monitor employee exposure, provide
medical surveillance, and maintain accurate records of employee
exposure. These records will be used by employers, employees,
physicians, and the Government to ensure that employees are not harmed
by exposure to formaldehyde.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously
approved collected for which approval has expired.
Agency: Occupaitonal Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Crane or Derrick Suspended Personnel Platforms.
OMB Number: 1218-0151.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 623.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 104.
Description: This regulation requires that personnel platforms
shall be conspicuously posted with a plate or other permanent marking
which indicates the eight of the platform and its rated load capacity
or maximum intended load.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Occupational Exposure to Cadmium (Construction).
OMB Number: 1218-0186.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 10,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: .15 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 46,395.
Description: The cadmium standard and its information collection
requirements is to provide protection for employees from the adverse
health effects associated with occupational exposure to cadmium. The
standard requires that employers must establish and maintain a training
and compliance program, including exposure monitoring and medical
surveillance records. These records are used by employees, physicians,
employers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
to determine the effectiveness of the employers' compliance efforts.
Also, the standard requires that OSHA have access to various records to
ensure that employers are complying with the disclosure provisions of
the cadmium standard.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Fall Protection Plan.
OMB Number: 1218-0197.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 100,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1 hour to develop a plan; 5 minutes
for compliance inspection access.
Total Burden Hours: 100,080.
Description: The employer is required to develop a fall protection
plan when it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use
conventional fall protection systems. The plan must be disclosed to the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration compliance officer at the
time of an inspection if requested.
Type of Review: New.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals.
OMB Number: 1218-0new.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 24,939.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5,419 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 135,145,622.
Description: These requirements/records are directed toward
assuring
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that the hazards associated with processes using highly hazardous
chemicals are managed. They establish procedures for process safety
management that will protect employees by preventing or minimizing the
consequences of chemical accidents involving highly hazardous
chemicals.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
Title: ERISA Procedures 75-1 (Exemption Procedures Under Section
408(a)).
OMB Number: 1210-0060.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 299.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: Application preparation = 25 hours
each = 7,475 hours; Preparation and distribution = 1.5 hours each = 138
hours; Reproduction and Mailing = 5 minutes = 838 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 7,996
Description: This regulation provides a procedures for applications
filed for exemptions from the prohibited transaction provisions of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
Title: Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 82-63.
OMB Number: 1210-0062.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 36,490.
Estimated Time Per Repondent: 5 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 3,041.
Description: This class exemption allows the payment of
compensation under certain conditions for the provision by an employee
benefit plan fiduciary or securities lending services to the plan.
Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Agency: Pension Welfare Benefits Administration.
Title: Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption--80-83.
OMB Number: 1210-0064.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1 hour.
Total Burden Hours: 1.
Description: This class exemption exempts from the prohibited
transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA), certain transactions involving an employee benefit plan's
purchase of securities which may aid the issuer of the securities to
reduce or retire indebtedness to a party in interest.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Interstate Arrangement for Combining Employment and Wages.
OMB Number: 1205-0029
Agency Number: ETA 586.
Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government.
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Average time
Activity Frequency Respondents per respondent
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Ongoing........... Quarterly......... 53 4 hours.
Reprogramming..... One-time.......... 53 80 hours.
Total burden
hours:
5,088.
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Description: This report provides data necessary to measure the
scope and effect of the program for combining wages and employment and
to monitor the performance of States in payment and wage transfer.
Type of Review: Revision.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Benefit appeals Report.
OMB Number: 1205-0172.
Agency Number: ETA 5130.
Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government
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Average time
Version Frequency Affected public Respondents per respondent
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Regular.................. Monthly.................. States................... 53 3 hours.
Extended Benefits........ Six times................ States................... 2 3 hours.
Total burden hours:
1,944.
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Description: This report is used to monitor the benefit appeals
process, to evaluate compliance with the appeals promptness standard
and to develop plans for remedial action. The report is also needed for
budgeting and for workload figures.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Disaster Payment Activities Under the ``Stafford Disaster,
Relief Act''.
OMB Number: 1205-0234.
Agency Number: ETA 90-2.
Frequency: 6 monthly reports.
Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 15 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 75.
Description: Unemployment, compensation claims, financial
management and data on disaster unemployment assistance (DUA) activity
are needed for timely program evaluation necessary for competent
administration of Section 410 and 423 of the Stafford Disaster Relief
Act (Act). Workload items are also used with fiscal reports to estimate
the cost of administering the Act.
Type of Review: New.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Evaluation of the Impact of Job Corps on Participant's
Postprogram Labor Market and Related Behaviors--Follow-up Questionnaire
and Process Study Protocols.
OMB Number: 1205-0new.
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Number of Average time per
Activity Affected public administrations respondent
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Impact Study:
12-month...... Applicant........ 11,665 45 minutes.
30-month...... Applicant........ 10,345 45 minutes.
48-month...... Applicant........ 9,052 45 minutes.
Process Study:
Process Visit. Various JC Staff. 23 54 hours.
Interviews.... Admission 500 1 hour.
Counselors.
Mail Survey... Center Directors. 108 6.5 hours
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Total Burden Hours: 25,810.
Description: Data from follow-up questionnaires will be used to
measure impacts of Job Corps on participants' earnings and related
behavior. Data from process protocols will be used to describe the Job
Corps Program. Data from both sources will be used to estimate the
benefits and costs of Job Corps.
Type of Review: New.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: Application of Federal Certificate of Age.
OMB Number: 1205-0083.
Agency Number: WG-14.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit; Not-for-profit institutions; Farms; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 30 seconds.
Total Burden Hours: 44.
Description: Section 3 (1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act provides
that an employer may protect against unwitting employment of oppressive
child labor by obtaining a certificate of age certifying that a youth
meets the Fair Labor Standards Act minimum age requirements. Form WH-14
is an application for a Federal Certification of Age.
Type of Review: New.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: Bona Fide Thrift or Savings Plan (29 CFR 547).
OMB Number: 1215-0119.
Agency Number: WG-14.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 2,016,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: Recordkeeping only.
Total Burden Hours: 1 hour.
Description: Section 7 (e)(3)(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act
permits the exclusion from an employee's regular rate of pay for
payments on behalf of an employee to a ``bona fide'' thrift or savings
plan. Regulations, 29 CFR 547, set forth the requirements for a bona
fide thrift or savings plan.
Type of Review: New.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: Requirements of a Bona Fide profit-Sharing Plan or Trust (29
CFR 549).
OMB Number: 1215-0122.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 864,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: Recordkeeping only.
Total Burden Hours: 1.
Description: Section 7 (e)(3)(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act
permits the exclusion from an employee's regular rate of pay for
payments on behalf of an employee to a ``bona fide'' profit-sharing
plan. Regulations, 29 CFR 549, set forth the requirements for a bona
fide profit-sharing plan.
Theresa M. O'Malley,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
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